Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-16
NORThuESIER TEES.
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Sh'i,h baEo u 1919 "1
in portions of Butler county.
The Turner's OF Davenport laid the corner
stone OF their new hall on Sunday.
The prohibitionists will meet 10 state con-
vention In Des Moines on the 14th inst.
The Dubuque city council by II vote OF six
to -four refused to grant n charter to the new
gas company.
The new Carroll county court house is ex-
peeted TO be ready To turn over to the county
some time in October.
Conductor Charles N. Jackson, OF the CHI
csgo, Burlington and Northern road, died in
Dubuque on the 81, aged thirty-one years.
The Marshall Building company's factory
at Marshslltown was burned down Thursday.
Loss about sl2, 900. Insurance very light.
A Dubuque man named Levi Work on
Thursday fell twenty-five feet through az Gle.
ystor way, but escaped with a bad shaking up.
The Davenport checker players are to have
a contest ia order to settle the momcntous
question as to wko is the best player in that
city.
Andrew Fossom, a wealthy farmer living
near Waukon, fell from a load of hay and
broke his neck. He was about fifty years OF
age.
1.-The internal revenue rec ipts in the Daven-
port district FOX June amounted to 500 A. 70.
This is the last report for Davenport and DR..
Stewart.
John and Frank M%oDinger, young men Of
5.enty-oLe ami sixteen, were Drowned In the
lows river near Calvin, Marshall county,
Thursday.
DR.. Park Klbbee, Of Troy Mills, was muir
derously assaulted on Friday with a spade in
the hands OF a farm laborcr. The doctor will
probably die.
A daughter Of II. II. Bell, OF Corning, three
years old, set fire to her clothing with a
match and was so badly burned that she died
shortly afterward.
A railroad bridge spanning Sugar Creek
near Donnellson, was burned Monday, and
With 1t seven freight cars. The loss is esti-
mated at 5000, partly insured.
Gov. Larrabee and a number Of other state
officers made a visit of inspection to the An
,moss penitentiary, the first OF the week, and
found everything In asple-pie order.
The funeral procession Of Barney Donohue,
the engineer who acctdently met his death In
Council Bluffs, Was a mile long, headed by
the Fifth regiment band and the locomotive
engineers,
A Mormon preacher with queer theological
ideas is creating considerable interest in
Council Bluffs by his elcsuenee aud cheek.
His presumption on the imbecility Of his
hearers Is wonderful.
One hundred ard seven fire insurance
companies, twenty.nine life and one accident
insurance companies are doing business In
the state, together with Twenty-Five assess
ment or cooperative associations.
Mrs. c. F. Richardson and her 6year old
daughter, of Adams county, were thrown
from q buggy by a runaway morse and the
child instantly killed. Mrs. Richardson was
badly bruised but will recover.
A young man at west union has been dis
charged from his clerkship and he says it is
gtsis 10 a local correspondent the case OF
Profs. Fellows and Leonard, at Iowa City.
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TINS var one OF the biggest corn crops IN us
history. WA hay VIII MIKE a TAR crop,
tinothy VIII be short, oats ialr, "hue barley
and wheat are going to be rarity, the former
having sunerei from drouth aud the latter
from chitcA bugs.
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